Monday, September 21, 2009
Forster Tamas in Hungary has a nice set of pictures of his wooden Noux: http://www.rcsailing.hu/photos/wooden_noux_building_(builder_forster_tamas)/ Down Under, Bill Hutch is also busy building. He has first made a wooden plug, then a mould, and finally moulded a glassfiber hull. http://radiosailingshop.com.au/index.php?main_page=page&id=6
Phanchita Supasirithanawat (www.rcsails.com) from Bangkok Thailand sent me these pictures of a down-scaled Noux design built to the RG65 rules. It's called a Noux65. There is a video here http://www.rcsails.com/noux65.htm
Sunday, November 30, 2008
FIN-43, my current Noux-design IOM, is packed and ready for shipping to its new owner next week. I made a holder for the bulb from tube-clamps, and disassmbled the rigs today. Everything fits nicely into my 110x30x26 cm boat box. The plan for 2009 is to cnc-mill plugs and make moulds for a variant of [...]
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Here's a picture of Per Robert Jentsch's home-built Noux.
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Steinar from Norway sent me some more pictures of his Noux boats. He has completed the first boat (see below), and is now building a second one. Another view of the spray-painting setup. The bulb is home-made, cast in a plaster mould. Here is Steinar's first boat, now completed and painted. I posted some building [...]
Steinar from Norway wrote to tell me about his Noux project. He started out building a planked wooden Noux (above), but it ended up too heavy, so instead a wooden plug was made (below) Using this plug Steinar has now made a mould and moulded a few glassfiber Noux hulls. There's no standard deck solution [...]
Friday, November 10, 2006
Boris from Switzerland sent me these two pictures of his Noux project which he has just started - thanks !
Wednesday, October 4, 2006
I've had a couple of requests for reduced shadows for the Noux by people wanting to home-build the boat using planking or other methods. Here are the lines with 1-6mm offset from the outer hull surface. A DXF file is attached to the pdf, click the small paper-clip next to the text to save the [...]
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Pete Trimmer has been busy finishing his boat and sent me some pictures of his progress: "Well the FAT NOUX now looks more like a boat than a pin cushion" Aussie Green and Gold paint scheme.
The latest IOM building activity in Finland: a group of builders in Turku have moulded a hull mould from the original Noux plug + designed their own deck plug and made a deck mould.